Chapter 41: Poison Gas

Chen Zhong went back to the church and rummaged around, found an axe and cut off the chain that held Travis in place.

Throwing the axe aside, Chen Zhong looked around, there were several shelves and several huge oil paintings around the hall, and some ancient scrolls and books were piled up on the shelves, and the oil paintings depicted some scenes of the end times.

Travis came over and said, "You saved my life, Geller wanted to kill me." ”

"You didn't sink deep enough, that's why I saved you. Do you know if Geller is some other hiding place? ”

"No, this is his home, and he will only leave here when we go out to find prey."

"You're talking about innocent people. Let's go, I'll take you to the inn and hide for a while, lest Geller find you. ”

After arranging for Travis to stay in a remote hotel, Chen Chong also returned to his apartment to rest.

There was no news of Geller for the next few days, he seemed to be in hiding, Chen Chong contacted Travis several times, and he did not give any useful clues.

Today's work is not busy, in his spare time, Chen Chong used the computer to flip through Geller's Weibo, and there were many messages from believers under his Weibo, all of whom were madmen who declared that they were willing to follow Geller to complete the end of the world as soon as possible.

After looking through Weibo for a while, feeling clueless, Alexis came over and said, "Chen, there is a woman looking for you, and she said that your old friend called her. ”

An old friend of his own? Chen Zhong couldn't think of who it was at all, "Let her in." ”

Alexis led in with a young woman with a rosy face and a backpack that looked heavy.

Seeing this girl, Chen Chong felt as if he had seen her somewhere.

The girl came to Chen Chong and asked, "You are Chen Chong?" ”

"Yes, you said it was sent by my old friend, who is he?"

When the girl was about to answer, Chen Chong suddenly remembered where he had seen her, and when he looked through Geller's Weibo just now, he saw the girl's avatar, she was a Geller believer who was madly obsessed with apocalypse.

"Professor Geller has asked me to greet you, you sinner who interfered in the beginning of the apocalypse! You deserve a taste of calamity! The girl's face turned crazy and hideous, and she pressed a button on the backpack with her right hand.

The office where the three of them were located was a separate room in the laboratory, and Chen Zhong pulled Alexis out of the office and slammed the door against it, through the glass door, he could see bursts of green smoke coming out of the backpack on the girl's back.

Chen Zhong pushed against the door to prevent the girl from coming out, turned around and shouted to Alexis: "Tell everyone to run, there is poisonous smoke here, you should run too!" ”

Alexis sounded the fire alarm, and the people working in the lab began to run outside, but Alexis returned to Chen Chong.

Seeing that the backpack girl in the office began to bleed, Chen Zhong angrily shouted at Alexis: "Get out!" I have a way to resist the poisonous smoke, listen to me and get out quickly. ”

Seeing that Chen Chong, who has always been very gentle, lost his temper for the first time, Alexis came outside in a panic, and Beckett and Cassel, who heard the news, hurriedly asked, "What's wrong inside?" What happened? ”

Alexis threw herself into Kassel's arms and cried, "Geller sent a woman with a gas backpack to find Chen, she wanted to die with us, and now Chenzhong has locked her in the office. ”

Beckett heard the poisonous gas inside, and hurriedly shouted to the people nearby: "Stand back, all stand back, evacuate everyone in the building." After shouting, he took out the phone and called his superiors to report.

Chen Zhong saw the woman in the office fall to the ground, and hurriedly ran outside, rushing out of the building and hurriedly breathing in the fresh air, just now he was afraid of inhaling poisonous gas, so he didn't dare to breathe at all.

Soon the National Security Bureau and a group of people wearing full-body protective suits entered the laboratory, and some people used equipment to test Chen Zhong wearing oxygen masks.

Alexis anxiously asked the medical staff, "How is he?" Is it life-threatening? ”

"He was lucky enough to inhale only a small amount of poison gas. But this gas can damage the upper respiratory tract, he may have nosebleeds and headaches recently, physical activity is strictly prohibited, and it is better to rest for a few days. ”

At this time, Director Montgomery pointed to a woman in a suit and said, "Everyone be quiet, this is Agent Hebbard of the Department of Homeland Security, she will take over the case of the Doomsday Killer in full, I hope you will cooperate with her investigation." ”

Cassel said to Beckett and Ryan and the others, "The DHS has come to pick peaches, and I've never had a crush on these guys. ”

Esposito also sarcastically said: "Who would like them, a bunch of people who will only waste taxpayers' money." ”

Chen Zhong put down the oxygen mask and said, "Anyway, someone is worried about this case, and I need to take a few days off to go back and recuperate." ”

Kassel said to Chen Chong: "You are a hero, rest is deserved, Alexis, you send him home and take good care of him." ”

Montgomery, Beckett, Ryan and Esposito also praised Chen's actions.

Chen Chong, who was resting at home, was taken care of by Alexis, and Chen Chong didn't have time to find an opportunity to contact Travis.

Finally, while Alexis was preparing dinner, Chen Zhong dialed Travis's phone, "Travis, I was gassed by Geller, how are you there?" No danger, right? ”

"No, but Geller contacted me on Weibo and asked me to go to church and meet him in the evening."

"Okay, you stay at the hotel, I'll go back and pick you up in the evening, and I'll go to church with you."

As soon as he put down the phone, Alexis walked into the bedroom with a tray, "Honey, try the hero's meal I made for you." ”

After dinner, Chen Zhong said to Alexis: "Honey, go home and rest, I'm fine." ”

"So what's the matter, you're a patient now, and I'm going to take care of you."

"Alexis, you also heard the doctor's words, I'm afraid that if you are here, I will have a nosebleed, and I can't help but have strenuous activities with you, you better go back and come back tomorrow morning."

Alexis said with a smile: "You bad guy, you think about lustful things all day long, okay, for your health, I'll go back first, and I'll bring breakfast tomorrow morning." ”

Finally persuaded Alexis away, Chen Zhong went to the hotel to pick up Travis, and the two went to the outside of the abandoned church of Our Lady of Loreto.

"Travis, the plan is this, you enter through the main entrance, and when you meet Geller, you tell him that you were not firm in your faith and confused for a while, and you feel sorry to attract his attention. And I crept in through the back door and took him down, got it? ”

Travis took a few deep breaths and said, "I know, I'll do it." ”

"Let's go!"

Chen Zhong slowly came to the back door and heard two voices arguing inside.

"God has promised that the tongue of sophistry will be cut out, that you will be torn apart, that you will be destroyed forever, repentance of your sins, Travis. Otherwise, you will be burned in the fires of hell for eternity. ”

Travis said, "I'm just doing what I think is right...."

"No, you have betrayed God, and you will be punished!"

Hearing that Travis might be in danger, Chen Chong hurriedly rushed into the church, where Travis lay on the ground, and there was no Geller in the church.

When he came to Travis's side, he found that he had just fainted, and his life was not in danger, Chen Zhong observed the furnishings in the church, and felt very puzzled, his speed was already far beyond ordinary people, how did Geller escape quickly?

Chen Zhong continued to search carefully, and finally found a small hidden door next to the altar table, and when the door was opened, there was a stone staircase going down.

Walking down the stairs, below is the basement of a church's storage, Chen Zhong pressed the switch next to the door, and found that the light in the basement was on, but he didn't expect that there was electricity in the basement of the long-abandoned church.

Look around the cramped basement, where there are dusty pots and jars, some shabby furniture, and a broken freezer at the bottom of the basement.

Chen Zhong came to the freezer, opened the cabinet door, and there was actually a frozen corpse inside, this corpse was wearing a shirt and a woolen cardigan and glasses, he turned out to be the James that everyone was looking for. Geller.

Looking at the state of the corpse, he has been placed here for a long time, Chen Chong felt for the first time that his wisdom was a little insufficient, what happened? Could it be that Geller's fools around have always been committing crimes? Did you enter a supernatural world?